How To Install Kali Linux On Windows 10

Run Kali Linux on Windows 10

Posted in Windows 10 by Steve Sinchak

Attention security professionals and penetration testers, believe it or not, just Kali Linux is at present bachelor in the Microsoft App store for Windows ten. The suite of security assessment and penetration tools tin can natively run on Windows 10 thanks to the work of the Windows system for Linux, as well known as WSL. While there are some limitations, Kali Linux brings a lot of new command line utilities that will be very helpful to the right professional. In addition, it is possible to leverage the XFCE desktop manager for a more than "native" Kali Linux experience.

In this guide, I volition walk you through installing the Windows System for Linux (WSL), Kali Linux, and configuring the XFCE desktop manager. Let's get started:

We demand to install the WSL and then right click on the Start Button and select Windows PowerShell (Admin). If you lot already have WSL installed, skip steps 1-iii.
Copy and paste the following command and hitting Enter to run it:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Reboot your PC.
Next, let's install Kali Linux. Search for Kali Linux in the Microsoft App store app or click this link to open information technology directly.
Click the Get button to begin the download and install.
Once installed, click the Launch button. Alternatively, you tin can use the new Offset bill of fare shortcut or simply go to PowerShell or command prompt and type kali and hit Enter. On the first run, the install must consummate. This will take a trivial while.
Once installed, it is time to setup your WSL username and countersign. This can be anything and does not need to lucifer your Windows username and password. Keep notation of this data, you will demand it to elevate your rights with sudo later and log into the desktop manager.
Now we need to setup the XFCE desktop director but need to install some utilities first. Run the post-obit command to install wget which is a utility that can download files over HTTP. Enter your password yous created in the previous step when prompted and hit Y to proceed with the download and install.
sudo apt-get install wget
Run the following command to download the install script.
wget https://kali.sh/xfce4.sh
Execute the script downloaded by running the following. This step will accept a very long time to execute and y'all volition demand to answer some questions about keyboard layout right in the middle.
sudo sh xfce4.sh
Now it is fourth dimension to get-go up the xrdp server so that we tin can connect to the XFCE desktop managing director using Remote Desktop. Run the post-obit command and notation the port number listed in the output.
sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp showtime
Once the xrdp server has started, open up Remote Desktop (mstsc) on your PC and connect to 127.0.0.ane:3390 where 3390 is the port displayed in step 11.
Log in with the Unix credentials setup in footstep 7.
Click Use default config, and you are done.

When you lot are done using Kali Linux it is best to close down the xrdp server past running sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp finish at the Kali Linux Rolling prompt. Savor!